End brace for cars.



Nmazssv. PATENTED JUNE 19, 1905,

1 l' H. W.` WOLPP.

- END BRACE FORI-CARS.

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lBND BRACE POR GARS.

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`LOUlS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR 'ro AMERICAN:

CAR & FOUN DRY COMPANYuOF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION l F NEW JERSEY.

i' No. 823,837.

and exact description, such` as will enable others skilled in the artto Which it apper- 'same, reference being had to the accom anying drawings, forming part of this'speciiincation, in which-l igure 1 is an elevational .view of the end gondolaA car provided with my improved race. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 1.` Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fi .1; andFigs. 4, 5, and are views similar togFigs. 1, 2, and 3, showing a modified form of my invention.

, This invention relates vto the construction 1 of cars, and particularly to that typeknown ofa as gondola cars.'

' :The object of my inventionis to provide a y car 'having end Walls which can be subjected to lgreat strain Without liability of bulging; 2 5 an to this end my invention consists in a novel'end-Wall brace rigidity tosaid Wall an it to the side walls of the par.;

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, `which represent' the referred form. of my invention, 1 and 2 designate, respectively, the end wall and the side Walls of'a gondola car, said Walls being .provided at theirupper edges with angles 3, such as cars of this type areusually provided with. .Lo-

Which imparts great ably are formed of channels havin their rehe longer legs of saidgchannels are connected to the end Wall 1 and the shorter legs have connected means of rivets 5, a transverselyangle are bent extending brace consisting of anV angle 6.

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- ed thereto byrivets rivets 8 and the horizontal leg the side Walls of the car and connect- I 7, the vertical leg` of the angle being also connected to the end Wall by being removed the angle which a of the car. n The aroun from the deiected'portionso extend around the sidewalls stakes 4 vare connected tothe end sill 49 bya web portion t A l t rivets 11 and' provided with tapering legs 12,

U-'shaped 'angie 10, having a relatively .wide at is fastened to the end sill by fied form of m 'also effectuallyties END BR'AcE Fon CARS.-

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y' which are connected to the webs of the Ichannel-shaped stakes by means of rivets '13, thus producinga connection between the stakes'and the end sill which is similar to a gusset-plateand accordingly enables said stakes to withstand great stram'.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I have i consisting 'practically of a truss that absolutely` prevents the end and also securely ties said wall.v to the side Walls of the carl l In Figs. 4,; 5, and

linvention in which the transverse'lyexten ingbrace consists oa plate or strap 6, connected to the stakes 4a and having its'ends bnt around the side Walls 4olf the cai` and connected thereto in the same manner as in the form of provided an end-Wall brace:

wall from bulgingI 6 I. have shown a mo'dimy invention shown in ligs. 1 to 3. In this truss theend-wall' of i the caracts as the compression member, the- -brace 6,(01' 6P) as Ithe tension member, -and the central stake or stakes as the struts.

t b anend wall, side walls, an end sill, a vertical y-extending stake connected to said end Walland to the end sill, I

and afbrace extending transversely outside of the end Wall of the car and connected to said stake as described.

i 3. A c'ar com rising an end vvall, side Walls,

a plurality of c anne -Shape stakes near the center of the end wall, and la transverselyextending brace having its end 'connected' to the side Wallsothecar, one leg of each'channel being connected *to the end wall and the 4other le bein connected to said brace; substantial y as escribed.

4. A car comprising an end Wall, side Walls and an end sill, a plurality of channel-shape Having thus described my; invention, whatl AI claim as new, -anddesire to secure by Let- Aters Patent, `is-. V-

1. A car provided with anend wall, an end stakev at approximately the center of sald yWall, and a and to the side walls; substantially IOO stakes vnear the center of the end wall, a U- i sha en t sill and its legs connected tothe Webs of the channel-shape stakes, and an angle exe angle having Vits web connected to the` IOS- tending transversely across the end Aof the I c ar having its vertical leg connected to the stakes and itsend`s bent around the side Walls of the car and connected thereto; substantially as described. i

5. A car comprisin sidewalls, an end wall and end sill, vertical A cated near the center lof the end Wall, a U- vshape angle having a relatively Wide web connected to the end sill, and tapering legs which are connected to said stakes, and a transversely-extending brace connected 'to the stakes and to the side Walls ofl the car; substantially as described.

6. Abrace for the end of a car comprising a transversely-extending tension memberl ocated entirely ai the outside of the end Wall i. of the car and connected tosaid-end wall voutside the endof the car and connected to the end and side Walls thereof; substantially thereof; substantiallyl as described.

` 7. A brace 'for the end of a car comprising a tension member extending transversely outside the end of the car and. connected to the side Walls thereof; substantially as described. i

,K 8. A- brace for the end of alcar comprising a tension member extending .transversely as described. l

- 9. .An end truss for cars consistingl of .a tension-brace extending transversely outside the end 'of the car and connected tothe endand side Walls thereof, and a strut co eratlng With said tensionfbrace; substantial y as 'described.. y v

10. The metallic end Wall of a car act-ing as -extending stakes lo-` the compression member of trussed end brac- 'ing in combination with a strut and a com.

ried by said end wall, and a tensionv member of said bracing coperating with said strut and said end-Wall, the ends of Ysaid tension member being connected to said end wall; substantially as described.

13. The combination with the metallic end Wall of a car which acts as a compression member of a trussed end bracing, a strut carried by said end wall, and a tension memberl of s-aid bracing coperating with said strut and said end Wall, the ends of the tension member being connected to the side wall; substantially as described.

vIn testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses,

.this 7th day of December, 1905.

HERBERT W. WOLFF.

Witnesses CoRA BADGER, GEORGE BAKEWELL. 

